McGough
and McGeough Gravestone
Inscriptions in County Monaghan

by Hugh McGough

I copied the first twenty-two gravestone inscriptions in eight Catholic cemeteries
in county Monaghan
in September 1998. Ann McGeough Harney sent me two more inscriptions from a
ninth cemetery. The cemeteries are in the civil parishes of Aghnamullen, Ballybay,
Clontibret, Donaghmoyne and Muckno. I have designated the nine cemeteries by
the letters Athrough I. Michelle
McGoff had published six additional inscriptions from Gravestones in Old St.
Patrick's Cemetery, Broomfield, county Monaghan on her now-inactive website.
The names from these inscriptions are listed under cemetery of the Donaghmoyne
Parish Church in the townland of Taplagh (cemetery F), and are included in the
index of names set out below.

In the summer of 2001, I revisited some of the cemeteries, and found both revised
gravestones and new ones. I visited two new cemeteries, J and K in the table
of contents. I have also added a "Miscellaneous" section in which
I record notes from other sources of McGough gravestones in Ireland.

Much more work can be done. For example, John O'Donovan in a letter of May
31, 1835, published on Traynor's
website under The McKenna
Connection, reports on his visit to "the old Church of Errigal"
in the parish of Errigal Truagh (perhaps in the townland of Drumbristan). After
listing the gravestones of the McKennas and Traynors, which are the most numerous,
he says:

As I walked through the cemeteries, I tried to find all inscriptions that
included the name McGough or McGeough. Because of deterioration, some of the
gravestones were illegible. I did not check written burial records of a cemetery.
I make no representation, therefore, that I found all gravestones that bear
the names McGough or McGeough, or that this is a complete list of all the McGoughs
or McGeoughs buried in the cemeteries that I checked.

The weather was usually wet and windy. The rain blurred the ink of some of
my notes. I have, however, compared my notes with photographs I took of many
of the stones. I have tried to reproduce the wording, spelling, errors, and
line breaks on the stones. I did not correct spelling mistakes. For example,
in gravestone #1, I reproduced REQUIESCANT IN
PACEas it is engraved, even though I had originally assumed
the N inrequiescant was a mistake. This
is a good example of why an unenlightened editor, such as myself, should not
attempt to correct perceived mistakes of the engraver. On revisiting my high
school Latin, I discovered that requiescant was not a mistake, but rather
the correct plural form of requiescat. "Requiescat in pace"
means may he or she rest in peace. "Requiescant in pace" means
may they rest in peace. Since the gravestone commemorates the lives of
Hugh and Ellen McGough and their son Patrick, use of the plural form is right
and my initial reaction was wrong.

Several of the gravestones described below are replacements of earlier stones,
often with the addition of names of later decedents.

The civil parish of Aghnamullen is divided into the Catholic parishes of Aughnamullen
East (cemeteries A and B) and
Aughnamullen West (C). The civil parish of Ballybay
consists of roughly the southern half of the Catholic parish of Tullycorbet
and two townlands from the Catholic parish of Aughnamullen East, Agheralane
and Corbrack. Twenty-two townlands that form the southeastern tip of the civil
parish of Clontibret are in the Catholic parish of Muckno, including the contiguous
townlands of Cornalough, Formil, and Mullaghanee, where the tithe applotment
books for 1830 show three listings for Hugh McGeough and two listings for Mary
McGough. See McGoughs, McGeoughs, and McGeoghs
in Ireland in the 182030s and 185060s: By County, Parish, and
Townland, lines # 311, 3268. Griffith's
Valuation shows an Andrew McGeough (#331) in Mullaghanee in 1860. Thirty-three
townlands that form the southeastern quarter of the civil parish of Donaghmoyne
are in the Catholic parish of Inniskeen. These include Mullaghunshinagh, where
the tithe applotment books show three McGoughs in 1823 and Griffith's Valuation
shows a McGeogh in 1861; and Shancobane, where the tithe applotment books show
three McGoughs in 1823 (line #364371).

Catholic Parishes in Ireland often have more than one active church or chapel
serving different chapel districts with the parish. For example, in Muckno Parish,
there are cemeteries adjoining active churches in the towns of Oram (G)
and Castleblayney (H). In the parish of Aughnamullen
West, I checked the cemetery in the townland of Lisdrumcleve near the town of
Latton (St. Mary's), but did not get to the church in the townland of Drumcunnion.
Drumcunnion was checked by Ann McGeough Harney. In the parish of Aughnamullen
East, I checked two active churches with adjoining cemeteries, which I have
designated as north (A) (St. Mary's of Carrickatee)
and south (B) (Sacred Heart at Lough Egish), which are
respectively near Annahaia and Tullynamalra Cross Road in the townland of Aghmakerr.
I covered only one active church in the parish of Donaghmoyne, and did not check
the churches in the townlands of Lisdoonan and Cordrummans Lower.

After I published the original version of these notes, Ann (McGeough) Harney,
author of the excellent McGeough
website, sent me two inscriptions from the graveyard in the parish of Aughnamullen
West adjoining Bawn Chapel (St. Patrick's, 1833) in the townland of Drumcunnion.
She points out that a Catholic school operated in connection with the chapel
is across the road from the chapel and cemetery and is in the townland of Lisinisky.
I added this cemetery to my list as (I), and the inscriptions
as #23 and #24. Michelle McGoff published
on her now-inactive website five additional McGeough inscriptions from Gravestones
in Old St. Patrick's Cemetery, Broomfield, county Monaghan. The names are listed
under F1 through F5.

Good maps that superimpose the boundaries of the townlands and Catholic parishes
in the Diocese of Clogher
upon the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland 1:50 000 topographical map (sheet
28) can be found in Landscapes of South Ulster: A Parish Atlas of the Diocese
of Clogher, by Patrick J. Duffy, published in 1993 by The
Institute of Irish Studies of the Queens University of Belfast in association
with the Clogher Historical
Society. In searching for cemeteries, the symbols on these meticulously
constructed maps are helpful: a cross on top of a square indicates a Catholic
church; a cross on top of a circle indicates a Church of Ireland; a small cross
standing alone represents a Presbyterian church; and a cross within a circle
represents a Methodist church. A representation of two of these maps, for the
Catholic parishes of Aughnamullen West and East, will be found in McGoughs,
McGeoughs, and McGeoghs in the Civil Parish of Aghnamullen.

These gravestone inscriptions support the conclusion that I have reached from
examining government, church, and estate records: the names McGough and McGeough
were used interchangeably within the same family, and often by the same person,
in Ireland in the 19th century. For example, both surnames appear on stone #4.
On #19, Patrick McGeough is listed as a "beloved friend" of
Terence and Eliabeth (sic) McGough. All are from Oram, although Patrick resided
in Castleblayney when he died. The three are interred in the same plot. Gravestone
#1 is a memorial to Hugh McGough; #2 names Hugh McGeough.
Both are probably from Cortaghart. The stones are next to each other and in
the same family plot.

An alphabetical summary of the names and data on the gravestones precedes
the copies of the inscriptions. This index includes surnames other than McGough
or McGeough that appear on a gravestone. Many of the gravestones give neither
the age at death nor the birth date. Sometimes even the date of death is not
shown. The surnames of children, grandchildren, or spouses that are used in
the index are sometimes the result of an educated guess. The place of residence
at the time of death is not necessarily the same as the place named in the inscription,
but unless I have other information, I have assumed they are the same.

If the spelling of a townland on the gravestone differs from the accepted form
I have spelled the townland in the index as it appears on the gravestone, but
noted the difference after the copy of the inscription. For example, Drumbo
on gravestone #12 refers to the townland now usually called
Drumbeo, but I refer to it as Drumbo in the index.

A. Aughnamullen East Parish, north church, in the townland of Annahaia.
(St. Mary's of Carrickatee)

Even though modern maps show St. Mary's chapel in the catholic parish of Aughnamullen
east as located in the townland of Annahaia, it was known as St. Mary's of Carrickatee,
the adjoining townland. The chapel was rebuilt in 1893. An excerpt, Churches
of Aughnamullen East, from a 1921 book, was sent to me by Ann McGeough Harney,
says:

"Here, as in the other parishes throughout the diocese, the people had
to pass through the long night of persecution without a church wherein to
worship God. They heard Mass and received instruction in the open air with
the arc of heaven their only canopy. They were a noble people; men of a martyr
spirit, patient, enduring and self-sacrificing; meeting persecution as the
rock meets the swelling wave, and filled heart and soul with the living, animating
faith of the early Christians.

"When about the middle of the eighteenth century domestic troubles
in England prompted her to placate the Catholics of Ireland by tacitly permitting
the erection of simple little chapels, without cross or belfry, through the
country, these brave people eagerly availed of the opportunity of building
a church. Their resources and their ideas of ecclesiastical architecture were
equally limited, and it was a simple and rude structure
they erected; but it was an inestimable blessing to them to have any shelter
under which to practice their devotions and pray for their emancipation. For
a century successive pastors repaired and renovated it and hoped for happier
days, when it would be replaced by a church better adapted to the service
of God.

[The paragraph on Sacred Heart Church at Lough Egish is set out under cemetery
B, below.]

ST. MARY'S CHURCH, CARRICKATEE

"The old church at Carrickatee dated from the end of the eighteenth
century. Its walls and roof, supported by many props, had long been an eyesore
to the Catholic population and a danger to worshippers, when the Rev. Eugene
M'Kenna, P.P., after completing the Church of the Sacred Heart, undertook
to replace it with the present beautiful church. St. Mary's, like the parish
church, is cruciform in plan, consisting of a nave, chancel and transepts,
and the walls in the exterior are well cemented.

"The church is provided with three galleries, one in the nave and one
in each of the transepts, thus reducing the dimensions of the building to
the smallest possible space that would accommodate the congregation. The passages
are laid in ornamental tiles, and the furniture, including benches and confessionals,
is in pitch pine, solid, substantial and comfortable. The altar, in marble,
is of chaste design. It is flanked with statues of the Sacred 20 Heart and
Blessed Virgin Mary, on marble pedestals.

"The church is well lighted, having four windows in each of the transepts,
five in the nave, and a very fine one in the Chancel. The total cost was A3,000.
The Church was solemnly dedicated to the service of God by the Most Rev. Dr.
Owens, on Rosary Sunday, October 4th 1893. The preacher on the occasion was
the Very Rev. Andrew MacArdle, S.J."

The Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland (Volume Forty): Counties of South
Ulster 18348, published in 1998 by The Institute of Irish Studies,
The Queens University of Belfast, in a section written in 1835, at page 71,
refers to the "Annaghhaghey chapel [that] contains accommodation for 600
persons ... [a] plain building with accommodations for 600 persons." Annaghhaghey
is the townland now known as Annahaia and the chapel described in the Memoirs
is the old church at Carrickatee at which the James McGough, whose name is on
gravestone #3 below, served Mass every day for seven years when he was a boy
living in Carrickatee. See McGoughs, McGeoughs, and
McGeoghs in the Civil Parish of Aghnamullen under the heading Shantonagh
Rectangle.

1

IN MEMORY
OF

HUGH McGOUGH

CORTAGHART
WHO DIED 15TH AUGUST 1877
ALSO OF HIS SONPATRICK McGOUGH
OF CREEVE
WHO DIED 2ND JUNE 1898
ANDELLEN McGOUGHCORTAGHART
WHO DIED 7TH JANUARY 1903

REQUIESCANT IN PACE
* * *

When I revisited this site in the summer of 2001, this stone and grave site
had been refurbished, and these lines had been added:

PATRICK MC GEOUGH
CARRICKALDRA
WHO DIED 26TH DECEMBER 1965,
AGED 64 YEARS

HIS WIFE ROSE,
WHO DIED 13TH FEBRUARY 2000.
AGED 78 YEARS

Notice that this gravestone can now be added to those where the surname is
spelled both McGough and McGeough on the same stone.

On a gravestone on an adjoining plot is this inscription:

2

OF YOUR CHARITY PRAY FOR THE HAPPY
REPOSE OF THE SOUL OF

JOHN Mc GEOUGH

LATE OF CORTAGHART
WHO DIED ON 30TH JULY 1944,
AND ALSO FOR THE REPOSE
OF THE SOULS OF HIS
BROTHERS HUGH AND OWENAND HIS SISTER KATE.
ALSO JAMES KERR
WHO DIED 30TH NOV 1991
AGED 72 YEARS

R.I.P.

McGEOUGH
* * *

On my revisit in the summer of 2001, there was a new gravestone:

2A

IN LOVING MEMORY
Of
THEMcGEOUGH FAMILY,
CORTAGHART

REST IN PEACE

McGEOUGH

B. Aughnamullen East Parish, south church, in the townland of Aghmakerr,
near Tullynamalra Cross Road (Church of the Sacred Heart at Lough Egish)

This church is known as the Church of the Sacred Heart at Lough Egish. Here
is an excerpt from the longer quotation from Churches of Aughnamullen East
cited under cemetery A, above:

"On the Rev. Eugene M'Kenna devolved the labour and the pleasure
of providing such a church. The old church at Lough Egish was in the very last
stage of usefulness in the year 1896, when, with the cordial approval of the
Bishop and the co-operation of the parishioners, he undertook the erection of
the CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART. This is a handsome and imposing edifice, cruciform
in design, and measures 86 ft. 0 in. x 67 ft. 0 in. Apart from the Altar, Stations
of the Cross and bell, which were the gifts of local benefactors, the Church
cost A31,800. The people provided, free of cost, the rough material and gave
much gratuitous labour. The architect was Mr. Thomas Elliot, Enniskillen, and
the builder, Mr. John Reid, Enniskillen."

3

JESUS HAVE MERCY

IN LOVING MEMORY OFJAMES McGOUGH, SHANTONAGH
DIED NOV 1908
HIS WIFE MARY, DIED OCT 1909.
THEIR CHILDRENJOSEPH, DIED MARCH 1906.JAMES, DIED FEB 1916.MARY, DIED JAN 1917.THOMAS, DIED FEB 1930.ROSE, DIED OCT 1932.PATRICK, DIED JAN 1936.PETER, DIED NOV 1943.
HIS WIFE ALICE, DIED NOV,1953,BERNARD, DIED JAN, 1963.CATHERINE, DIED 1969. ALSO
GRANDCHILDREN,JAMES, DIED 1968.MARY E. DIED 30 Jan.1984PETER BRADY
DIED 21 NOV.1977 R. I. P.
* * *

C. Aughnamullen West Parish in the township of Lisdrumcleve at Latton (St.
Mary's)

The Latton chapel in the Catholic parish of Aughnamullen West dates from the
1820s. Landscapes of South Ulster: A Parish Atlas of the Diocese of Clogher,
Patrick J. Duffy, at page 88.

4

ERECTED
to the memory of the late JohnMc Gough of Lisgillen by his
affectionate sons. He departed this
life September 20th 1856, aged 56 years.
Also their brother Patrick who departed
this life November 26, 1846, aged 24 years.

D. Ballybay Parish in the township of Cornamucklaglass
(St. Patrick's Church in the town of Ballybay)

Intheir book published in September of 1999, At the Ford of the
Birches: The History of Ballybay, its People and Vicinity, James H. Murnane
and Peadar Murnane publishes gravestone inscriptions in Catholic cemeteries
in the civil parish of Ballybay. The five inscriptions below are the only McGeough
inscriptions reported in the book. The history of St. Patrick's Church in the
town of Ballybay is described at page 62 through 64.

6

PRAY FOR THE SOUL OFBERNARD McGEOUGH, BALLYBAY
WHO DIED 3RD FEBRUARY 1936
AGED 76 YEARS
AND HIS WIFE ROSE A. Mc GEOUGH
WHO DIED 20TH NOVEMBER 1947
AND THEIR DAUGHTER SUSAN BRIGID
WHO DIED 17TH JUNE 1977

R. I. P.
* * *

7

IN LOVING MEMORY
OFPATRICK Mc GEOUGH, MAIN ST.
DIED 10TH AUGUST 1949.BRIDGET McGEOUGHDIED 2ND JANUARY 1963.
THEIR SON PETER,
DIED 24TH DECEMBER 1971.JACK BOYLAN,
DIED 23RD MAR. 1986.

The gravestone of Sister Mary Bernard is in a separate enclosure in which several
sisters of the Order of the Sacred Heart are buried.

E. Clontibret Parish in the townland of Tullybuck

The townland of Tullybuck is immediately west of the townland of Lisglassan,
and about a kilometer northwest on highway N2 of the village of Clontibret as
shown on modern maps at the intersection of N2 and R184. "The Mass garden
in Lisglassan was replaced by Clontibret church at Tullybuck in 1859."
Landscapes of South Ulster: A Parish Atlas of the Diocese of Clogher, by
Patrick J. Duffy, page 84.

12

PRAY FOR THE SOUL
OFBRIDGET Mc GEOUGHDRUMBO
WHO DIED 14TH JAN.1913, AGED 75 YEARS
ALSO HER SON THOMAS
WHO DIED 20TH NOV. 1887, AGED 21 YEARS.
AND HER HUSBAND BERNARD McGEOUGH
WHO DIED 14TH APRIL 1914, AGED 81 YEARS
ALSO BERNARD McGEOUGH
WHO DIED 23RD AUG. 1960 AGED 72 YEARS
HIS WIFE MARY ANNE,
WHO DIED 6TH AUG. 1976 AGED 83 YEARS
THEIR SON HENRY
WHO DIED 5TH NOV. 1990 AGED 72 YEARS
ALSO HIS BROTHER FRANCIS,
WHO DIED 18TH JULY 1994.
R. I. P.
* * *

"Drumbo" is almost certainly the townland of Drumbeo
in the civil parish of Clontibret.

F. Donaghmoyne Parish Church in the townland of Taplagh
(St. Patrick's)

The gravestones inscriptions beginning with my number 13 below are from the
active St. Patrick's Catholic church in the townland of Taplagh, near Broomfield,
parish of Donaghmoyne, county Monaghan.Michelle McGoff places these
stones at the "Church of St. Michael and St. Victor, Tullymackilmartin."
In the same area is Old St. Patrick's Cemetery which lies around the Old St.
Patrick's Church, which existed in Broomfield from 1801 to 1898. The ruins of
the foundation of the church still exist. Michelle McGoff, in her now inactive
website IrishMcGoff.com,
published additional McGeough inscriptions under Gravestones in Old St. Patrick's
Cemetery Broomfield, county Monaghan. I did not go into the Old St. Patrick's
cemetery, but have included the names that appear on the gravestone inscriptions
collected by Michelle McGoff below my numbered tombstone 16.

13

MERCY
JESUS
MERCY
ERECTED BY OWEN McGOUGH
OF
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND
IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHERHENRY McGOUGH, OF KILNACRANFY
WHO DIED 25TH APRIL 1872. AGED 65 YEARS
AND OF HIS MOTHERANNE McGOUGHWHO DIED 12 MAY 1901 AGED 82 YEARS
REQUIESCAT IN PACE

McGOUGH
* * *

[This is the Henry McGeough that the FamilySearch website shows
married Anne McGinn in the townland of Drumharriff, parish of Donaghmoyne,
in about 1842. The townland of Kilnacranfy is less than a mile west of Drumharriff.
Between is the townland of Dian. See gravestone #16]

I missed the nearby Old St. Patrick's cemetery. Michelle McGoff
was kind enough to give me a description of where it is:

"Let's say you're looking at the front of the Church (St. Pat's
in Broomfield). To the front of you is the church, directly behind you is the
'new' cemetery and approximately 50 feet to your left there is a road. You would
walk down the road with the church on your right hand side for about 150 feet.
On your right hand side there is a hedge of bushes and right as they start there
is a little opening with steps. You walk up the 3 or 4 steps up the hill and
there is an old cemetery with grass high to your thighswith some paths
throughout (but not many). It is a very old cemetery (probably started about
1800) but there were just a few very new graves there. Actually the only brand
new ones that I saw were the ones for my familyPatrick McGeough just died
in 1998 (he was 79)...and I believe they buried him on top of the other 10 people
there too. The grave must have been ancient. They bury most everyone at the
new cemetery."

The inscription on the six stones found by Michelle McGoff were
on her now-inactive website at Gravestones in Old St. Patrick's Cemetery Broomfield,
county Monaghan. For easy reference, I list the names below and include them
in the index above.

F1: Frank McGeough, Knockreagh, died 12 Dec. 1960. His wife
Bridget, died 24 Aug. 1964. Their son Pat, died 21 July 1998.

F4: Patrick McGeough, Lisnafinelly, of Broomfield, who
died 2 November 1928. His wife Bridget, who died 17 April 1936. His daughter
Bridget, who died 27 March 1911. His son Owen, who died on the 10 November
1926. His daughter Annie, who died 2 January 1956.

F6: Michael Callaghan, Derryisland, died 3 February 1901,
age 61, and his beloved wife, Bridget Callaghan (nee McGeough), died 7 December
1901, age 56. (Derryisland is a townland in the Catholic and civil parish
of Clontibret. The reference may be to Derryilan. The townland to the immediate
west of Keeneraboy and Knockreagh Upper in Donaghmoyne is shown on modern
maps as "Derryilan or Knocknamullagh.")

G. Muckno Parish Church in the townland of Oram (St. Patrick's)

Have pity on me. Have pity on me,
at least you my friend, for the
hand of the Lord has smitten me.
Job. 19 c 21 v.

Of your charity pray for
the soul
of Edward McGough whose remains
are interred in these grounds.

* * *

19

PRAY FOR THE SOULS
OFTERENCE McGOUGH, OF ORAM
WHO DIED MAY 8TH 1886,
AND HIS WIFE ELIABETH McGOUGH
WHO DIED JULY 17TH 1891.
AND THEIR BELOVED FRIEND,PATRICK McGEOUGH, ORAM
AND LAUREL HILL PLACE C.BLAYNEY
WHO DIED 29th JUNE 1990
AGED 89 YEARS

R.I.PMcGOUGH* * *

The last gravestone is another example of the McGough and McGeough names appearing
on the same stone. The date of death of Patrick McGeough is shown as June 29,
1990, but the correct date may be 1890. Beloved friends seldom die 100 years
apart from each other.

H. Muckno Parish cemetery in the township of Connabury,
town of Castleblayney (St. Mary's)

20

ERECTED BY BRIDGET MARY McGOUGH
OF GLASGOW
TO THE MEMORY OF HER SISTER ANNE
DIED 2ND DEC. 1938, AGED 46 YEARS
AND HER BROTHER THOMAS
DIED 30TH MARCH 1928, AGED 36 YEARS
ALSO HER BROTHER PATRICK
DIED 6TH OCTOBER 1916, AGED 31 YEARS
AND BRIDGET MARY
DIED 2ND MARCH 1956, AGED 85 YEARS

OUR LADY OF LOURDES PRAY FOR THEM

* * *

21

IN LOVING MEMORY
OFJAMES McGEOUGHMARKET SQUARE CASTLEBLAYNEY
DIED 6TH JULY 1958
HIS WIFE MARY BRIDGET
DIED 11TH AUG. 1974
THEIR SON PATRICK
DIED 1ST OCT. 1994
R.I.P.
SACRED HEART OF JESUS HAVE MERCY

McGEOUGH
* * *

22

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
THE McGEOUGH FAMILYS
FORMILL
WHO ARE INTERRED HERE

In Landscapes of South Ulster: A Parish Atlas of the Diocese of Clogher,
Patrick J. Duffy says: "Bawn chapel was built in 1833 on a site in Drumcunnion
obtained from Captain Tennison" (page 88). Ann (McGeough) Harney sent me
two inscriptions from this cemetery. She points out that a Catholic school operated
in connection with the chapel is across the road in the townland of Lisinisky.
Ann furnished me the text of the inscriptions without formatting, so I have
made a guess as to the line spacing and capitalization.

23

In loving memory ofJohn McGeough, Lisiniskey
died 4th October 1970.
His wife Margaret died 4th February 1980.
Their son Eugene died 12th April 1993.
Erected by the McGeough Family

24

In loving memory of

Patrick McGeough, Lisiniskey

died 10th Jan 1958.

His daughter Mary died 1939.

And other family members.

His wife Mary Anne died 24th June 1987.

J. Inniskeen Parish, St. Mary's Church in the Town of Inniskeen.

This is the cemetery in which Patrick Kavanagh is buried. Michelle McGoff
has published some of these same gravestones on her excellent website (now
inactive) under the title St. Mary's Church & Graveyard, InniskeenMcGeough
Gravestones. The inscriptions below are based on my notes, and there are some
slight differences from hers. I made a few corrections to my notes because
her version is more probably correct than mine. The main difference is in
#25, where I am sure the first Peter McGough is spelled differently
than the following Peter McGeough on the same stone. Also, numbers
30, 31, and 32 are not on her website. The latter two of these are new, and
were surely erected after her visit to the cemetery and before my visit in
July, 2001. The modern spelling of the towland of Drumcay, which appears on
gravestones #25 and 29, is Drumcah.

25

ERECTED BYPETER McGOUGH, DRUMCAY

IN LOVING MEMORY OF HIS SONPETER WHO DIED APRIL 10th 1906.

ALSO HIS DAUGHTERS KATIE WHO DIED MAY 12th, 1906.MARY WHO DIED NOVr 26th 1918.

PETER McGEOUGH,
DIED 18TH JUNE 1930.

HIS WIFE CATHERINE,DIED 31ST JAN. 1943.

THEIR SON JAMESDIED 7TH JULY 1952

HIS SON THOMAS DIED 19TH DEC 1976 AUST.

RIP

26

IN
LOVING MEMORY
OFTHOMAS MCGOUGH
SHANCOBANE
DIED 25TH JANY 1935, AGED 92 YEARS
AND HIS WIFE MARY MCGOUGH
DIED 25TH OCT 1929, AGED 70 YEARS
ALSO HIS SISTERCATHERINE MCGOUGH
DIED 5TH JULY 1918, AGED 75 YEARS
ALSO PATRICK MCGOUGH
DIED 12TH JUNE 1948, AGED 52 YEARSOWEN MCGOUGH, SHANCOBANE
DIED 15TH AUG 1961CATHERINE MCGOUGH, SHANCOBANE
DIED 22ND MARCH 1963

27

IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF THOMAS MCGOUGH
SHANCOBANE
DIED 12TH NOV 1965
HIS SISTER BRIDGET MCGOUGH
DIED 9TH JAN. 1972
THEIR SISTER MARY MCQUILLAN
DRUMLUSTY
DIED 4TH JAN 1978
ALSO JAMES MCGOUGH
LATE OF SHANCOBANE
DIED 26TH SEPT 1984
AND HIS BROTHER PETER
DIED 12TH NOV 1986

You have not left us. Your Love
And Laughs Are Forever Locked in Our Hearts.

The last two gravestones. #31 and #32, were new in July of 2001,
and are on the same plot. People visiting the graves told us that Ciaran was
the grandson of Edward, and this his grandmother, Rose McAdam McGeough continued
to lived in Inniskeen.

K. St. Patrick's Old Church and CemeteryOld Donaghmoyne Cemetery

This old cemetery and church is decrepit and tumbledown. St. Patrick is credited
with founding the church. Most of the gravestones are illegible. This is the
cemetery where William Steuart Trench, who died at age 63 on August 4, 1872,
was buried under an impressive monument that now lies in pieces. I found one
McGeough gravestone in this cemetery:

33

I H S

This stone was Erec'd ByJames Patrick & Peter McGeough In Memory of their
Father Owen McGeough
who departed this life
May Yc / 16th 1770
Aged 39 years.

See: Donaghmoyne Heritage, an organization supporting the restoration of St. Patrick's church. There are several photographs of the old church on the website.

"There is a Terrence McGeogh buried in the old Tydavnet churchyard
in Monaghan, just down the road from Tyrone. He died in 1775 age 67."

Tydavnet Old Cemetery, by Very Rev. B. O'Daly, 1 Clogher Journal #2,
page 43, gives the date of death as March 29, 1775. The same article lists a
monument by Patrick McGough to John McGough who died on June 3,
1793 at the age of 28. Father O'Daly says that the cemetery is in the townland
of Mullanrocken, adjacent to the townland and village of Tydavnet, that the
earliest inscription is dated 1677, and that the cemetery closed in 1910.

[William McGeoghy is listed in the Hearth Money Rolls of 1663 for the
townland of Agherakeltan, parish of Tedavnet, county Monaghan.]

In the medieval parish church and graveyard in the townland of Mullanacross
in the parish of Errigal Trough (Ordnance Survey map of Monaghan H 6506 5013),
according to Memorials in Old Errigal Cemetery, County Monaghan, by Dr.
Patrick Mulligan, Father Patrick McEntee and Theo McMahon, Clogher Record 1987,
page 372, is a large flat stone inscribed:

"Sacred to the memory of Richard McGeough of Anaugh who died
on August 18th 1816, aged 65 years."

An article in the Clogher Record, volume ix, number 1, page 119 (1982) lists
the graves of a McGeough and a McGough. Graveyard InscriptionsKilleevan
and Aghabog by Patrick Mulligan, Hugh McCaughey, P.P., and Michael McGourty
CC:

In an article at VI Clogher Record 191 (1966), The Inscriptions of Killanny
Old Cemetery, Rev. P. O. Meardin describes a cemetery at the southeast end
of the parish of St. Enda in the townland of St. Enda as one of Farney's "most
ancient and unusual cemeteries," which is completely neglected and impassable,
with headstones knocked down or smothered. The oldest inscription is 1721; the
most recent, 1921. He lists this stone:

"This stone was erected by Michl McGough of Louth in memory of
his father Peter McGough who died Decr. 10th 1817. Aged 75 years."

Gravestones #25 and 29 refer to Drumcay. (This is probably the townland of
Drumcah in the civil parish of Inishkeen.) On June 5, 1917, in San Francisco,
California, John McGough, who was born in Drumcay, county Monaghan, Ireland,
on June 9, 1893, registered for the US draft. He was single, and resided at
1341 Hayes Street, San Francisco, California. He was working out of the McAllister
car barn as a motorman for "United R Ry." World War I Draft Registration
Cards, 1917–1918 on Ancestry.com. On May 30, 1918, John Joseph McGough,
who was born in Drumcay, county Monaghan, Ireland, on June 5, 1893, filed a
Petition for Naturalization in the US District Court, Tacoma, Washington. He
was a soldier stationed at Camp Lewis, Washington (just south of Tacoma). The
petition says that he arrived in the US at New York from Liverpool on June 5,
1914, aboard the Adriatic. U.S. Naturalization Records - Original Documents,
1795–1972, on Ancestry.com. This may be the John McGough listed by
the 1920 census of San Francisco (Assembly District 21) as 24 years old, single,
born in Ireland who emigrated in 1914 and (according to the census return) was
naturalized in 1917, a watchman for a railroad, living with his brother-in-law,
Matthew Hoey, age 43, born in Ireland, who emigrated in 1896, and was naturalized
in 1902, and was working as a clerk for a railroad. Matthew's wife was Annie
Hoey, age 35, born in Ireland, who emigrated in 1904. She was the mother of
2 children, ages 11 and 8, both born in California. They were living on Mississippi
Street. Ellis Island records show that John McGough, age 20, single, a laborer,
arrived at the Port of New York aboard the Adriatic from Liverpool on June 5,
1914. The ship's manifest lists his nearest relative in the place he came from
as his father, Peter W. Gough (sic) (possibly the Peter McGough on gravestone
#25) of Drumcah, Monaghan (spelled Muishun?) and his destination as the home
of his sister, Mrs. Annie Hycy, 238 Mississippi Street, San Francisco,
California. His place of birth is listed as Drumcah, Ireland.

[Thomas McGough,age 25, a laborer, who was born in Inniskeen, Ireland, and
whose father was Peter McGough of Drumcah, Inniskeen, county Monaghan, Ireland,
arrived in the port of New York aboard The Cymric from Cristobal, C.Z. (Panama
Canal Zone), on May 15, 1915. The ship's manifest says he was on the way to
visit his brother, John McGough, at 242 Mississippi Street, San Francisco, California.
Thomas McGough, who gave his address as 242 Mississippi Street, San Francisco,
registered for the draft on the same day as John McGough, June 5, 1917. Thomas
gave his birth place as county Monaghan, Ireland; his date of birth as March
17, 1892, and his occupation as a car repairer employed by the Southern Pacific
on 7th Street. He had a disabled foot. There was a Thomas McGough, age 29, born
in in Ireland, single, who, in the 1920 census, was an inmate in the Stockton
State Hospital in Stockton, San Joaquin county, California. The census records
shows that he had emigrated in 1915.]

McGough
and McGeough Gravestone Inscriptions in County Monaghan
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April 30, 2010